Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations

Skills

About the Role

You will design, build and evaluate system-level controls for agent actions, such as agent-based review, and plan how they fit into broader systems including sandboxing. You will work closely with a Codex harness engineering team to productionize these controls, red-team agentic systems, and improve the safety-productivity tradeoff.

Requirements

• Strong systems or security instincts and ability to reason about isolation boundaries, permissions, attack surfaces, and failure modes
• Ability to turn ambiguous safety questions into threat models, reproducible experiments, and practical mitigations
• Ability to build robust experimental infrastructure and design evaluations
• Deep interest in frontier AI alignment, safety and control

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evaluate system-level controls for agent actions like agent-based review
• Plan how controls fit into a broader system including sandboxing with process isolation and permission boundaries
• Work closely with a Codex harness engineering team to productionize AI controls
• Red-team end-to-end agentic systems to measure whether controls prevent data exfiltration, unsafe tool use, and other harmful outcomes
• Measure and reduce missed harmful actions, unnecessary blocks, approval burden, and latency

Benefits

• Equity
• Performance-related bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
• Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
• Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
• Paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Relocation support
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends